ABOUT

Lou is a man who tells it like it is, and doesn’t believe in apologizing for it, so if you were to say that he had “some” experience in advertising, he would be quick to point out that this is a ludicrous understatement. Over the last 35 years, he has worked at numerous national and international advertising agencies, including McCann Erickson, Saatchi and Saatchi, BBDO, J. Walter Thompson, and PACE Advertising, as well as several boutique agencies. His past clients have included L’Oréal, Ralph Lauren, Sony, and Dick Clark Productions, just to name a few. He has won several ADDYs, CableACE awards, Art Director’s Guild awards, and Graphic Design USA awards, and was part of two teams that won CLIOs. With a BFA from Pratt Institute and a masters in mass communication psychology from Columbia, Lou knows his business. He is a master of persuasion (self-proclaimed, but clearly not unfounded) and thrives on competition. In other words, he’s someone every business that wants to truly succeed should have on its marketing team.

Along the way – presumably between wisecracking and award-winning – Lou has managed to acquire quite an eclectic list of hobbies. He paints and sculpts. He engages in archery, sharpshooting, and carpentry. He listens to Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits. He watches movies: The Godfather is his favorite. He can even fly a plane. Now he wants to learn Irish step dancing. Considering everything else he’s achieved over the years, one more hurdle – or jig, as the case may be – shouldn’t prove too difficult.

Maxie knows how to keep everything in the office running smoothly, a skill she attributes (albeit warily) to the fact that her astrological sign is Libra. But it probably has more to do with the fact that she’s had an awful lot of experience. Since she graduated from the Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany with an MBA in marketing, she has worked in the marketing departments of the German TV channel MDR, the Wurzener Food Company, and GoGorilla Media – a diversity that demonstrates just how versatile she can be. Whichever client she’s working with, Maxie applies all her skill, passion, and dedication to helping the company succeed.

Outside of the office, Maxie is just as multifaceted as she is inside. A self-described handy girl, she loves working in the yard and building things. But she’s also a devotee of Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings movies, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a 1980s music fanatic, a $64 lottery winner, a chocolate milk addict, a dinner-for-breakfast eater, and – amazingly enough – an accordion player. In the future, she would love to mentor an exchange student in the ways of the Force – sorry, make that business.

Raised in the Bronx and with a degree in marketing from Berkeley College – New York and another in graphic design from the Art Institute of New York, Lora is in charge of maintaining good relationships between us and our clients. And she does an amazing job of keeping both sides happy. Lora works to improve each client’s market position and help the client achieve financial growth by recognizing business opportunities and suggesting long-term organizational strategic goals. She also diligently stocks the office candy machine, for which we are all eternally grateful (and have increasingly bad teeth).

As much as she does for our clients, and for us, Lora does occasionally go home, or, more accurately, anywhere else in the world: She loves nothing more than traveling and meeting people from different cultures. But when she is home, she enjoys reading, watching Big Lebowski, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Night at the Roxbury, eating Starburst, listening to everything from Coldplay to Jay Z to Britney Spears, and showing up anyone who dares to challenge her mad FIFA skills. Shopping and making people laugh are always pretty high on her to-do list, too. And winning the lottery, but that one’s a little harder to arrange.

Although Sean once dreamed of becoming an astronaut and seeing other worlds, he now creates his own, with a little help from his computer and a degree in New Media from Purchase College. He has experience with video, graphic, programming, and web-based design, but is especially skilled at web development and video graphics. This latter talent likely helps explain why his video installation “Out of Order” won an award for Best Experimental Film. But Sean hasn’t let his win go to his head: he’s still incredibly passionate about learning new skills, especially in the creative world, and finds nothing more satisfying than seeing a project progress from start to finish.

Even off the clock, Sean is always making art, both digital and physical. He enjoys doing internet-based work, programming installations, and projection mapping, as well as woodworking. When he isn’t thus employed, he’s watching movies by the ever-quirky Wes Anderson, honing his metalworking skills, or puzzling over the popularity of the Kardashian siblings. His aspirations include snowboarding in Argentina, visiting his ancestral Ireland, adopting a penguin (the details are still a little fuzzy, or feathery), and starting a campaign to end open-mouth chewing.

A Bronx born, New York native and rural wannabe, Jose has been working as a graphic designer for about a decade. He has gathered a wealth of knowledge in visual communications and design, but there is always more to learn and he has a passion for gathering and sharing that knowledge with other like-minded folk. Throughout schooling, he could never be found without his nose in a sketchbook, and he continues to exercise that creativity to develop concepts for ads, menus, logos, business cards, and more, and put them into visual form

When he’s off-duty, Jose can be found sketching, sipping copious amounts of tea, tending to his plethora of house plants, or watching old Kung-fu movies. When he was a kid, he wanted to either be an graphic artist or paleontologist. Obviously, he opted for the former. Now he dreams of learning how to blacksmith, exploring the world, and space travel.

Thomas Wesbecher, often referred to as the Michael Jordan of design, is a locally based digital artist who received his Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Full Sail University. Although perfectly happy working behind the scenes at Studio 6 on projects, he most enjoys meeting with clients during the initial brainstorming phase to help them bring their ideas to life. When not at Studio 6, Thomas is often found in his study, which has rich undertones of mahogany and good ideas and is filled with many leather bound sketchbooks.

He enjoys photography, long walks on short piers, and that feeling you get when you split an Oreo clean on the first try. His co-pilot, Cody, a.k.a Golden Delicious, a.k.a Mr. Baklava, is a pit-bull that has more nicknames than a 1980’s hype man. In the years to come, Thomas hopes to one day own his own studio – or maybe his very own country (no big deal) but for now, the Michael Jordan of design will have to do.